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...ring got Christ and the Adulteress in a trade for 173 paintings. One revealing way in which Master-Painter Van Meegeren overshot the mark was by producing so many Vermeers on religious subjects; of all the genuine Vermeers known, the only one that is religious in theme is the Edinburgh National Gallery's Christ with Mary and Martha...
...year-old Scotsman, depressed, put a bullet through his brain with a .45 service revolver, leaving a 1¼-inch hole in his forehead. What happened thereafter was so astonishing that Edinburgh's Principal Police Surgeon Douglas J. A. Kerr reported it in last week's Lancet...
...Kenneth Macrae of Stornoway, Hebrides, was boiling mad. Mincing no words, he told the Edinburgh assembly of the fundamentalist Free Church of Scotland (the "Wee Frees") that the church should break relations with the Y.M.C.A. The Y, he had discovered, was condoning modernist doctrines and "worldly amusements," and had put out a scandalous booklet for servicemen. Told in the Huts. Without further ado, the shocked assembly passed the resolution. Next day, it learned that the objectionable booklet was about France and Gallipoli during World War I, and had been out of print for 25 years...
...Body Snatcher (RKO-Radio) is a double-barrelled horror picture (Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) which Producer Val Lewton and his associates have developed from the Robert Louis Stevenson short story. Laid in Edinburgh in the 18305, it involves the tragic traffic of a young medical student (Russell Wade) and his brilliant teacher (Henry Daniell) with a grave robber who does not hesitate to murder when a cadaver is urgently needed for dissection...
...Farouk, touched by a story in a Cairo newspaper, did his bit toward a serviceman's rehabilitation. The story: Scottish sapper David Bell, sightless and handless since a booby-trap explosion near El Alamein in 1942, hoped to start life anew with a tobacco shop in his hometown, Edinburgh. Farouk's bit: he sent Bell 25,000 choice Egyptian cigarets with which to set up shop...